Words Dept. is a fan of egg-shaped ex-greengrocer Gregg Wallace, the co-host/judge of TV’s Masterchef. So it is with great embarrassment and personal sadness that I must recount the claims this weekend that in addition to a penchant for “plates of food”, the renowned “ingredients expert” is a fan of sick bottom smacking action for [...]

Time for the new series of MasterChef (which is no longer called MasterChef Goes Large, for some reason). This is my favourite place to hear the mysterious phrase “plates of food” repeated endlessly for half an hour. It sounds like it should be Cockney rhyming slang. Plates of food = dude (or something). Sadly, it [...]